Gwyneth Paltrow shared a passionate kiss with Timothee Chalamet while filming the sports drama Marty Supreme in New York on Wednesday.
The actress, 52, kissed Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend, 28, during a steamy street scene, where he held her against a wall.
The May-December couple stars in the upcoming film inspired by the life of Marty Reisman and the world of professional ping-pong players.
The actress’s return to the big screen after a five-year hiatus was inspired by her daughter Apple, 20, who is crushing on Chalamet.
“Gwyneth signed on to co-star with Timothee in Marty Supreme thanks to her daughter, who has had a crush on the Dune star for years,” a source exclusively told DailyMail.com.
Gwyneth Paltrow shared a passionate kiss with Timothee Chalamet while filming the sports drama Marty Supreme in New York on Wednesday.
The actress, 52, kissed Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend, 28, during a steamy street scene, where he held her against a wall.
The May-December couple stars in the upcoming film inspired by the life of Marty Reisman and the world of professional ping-pong players.
The Goop founder and the Call Me By Your Name actor wore vintage-inspired outfits for the scene.
Gwyneth stunned in an elegant floor-length red coat and black opera-style gloves.
Her platinum blonde locks were styled in a sophisticated bun and she accessorized the look with dangling earrings.
Meanwhile, Timothee sported a gray double-breasted suit with a matching tie and a pair of silver-rimmed reading glasses.
His raven hair was parted on the side and gelled, and he sported a slight mustache.
The couple was seen filming the scene at night.
Despite not having any “great desire” to act, Paltrow was reportedly “convinced” to say yes to the offer after her daughter Apple learned that Chalamet not only produces, but also plays the lead role.
“As soon as Gwyneth told Apple that Timothee is not only a producer but also a lead actor, she begged her mother to agree.
The Goop founder and the Call Me By Your Name actor wore vintage-inspired outfits for the scene.
The actress’s return to the big screen after a five-year break was inspired by her daughter Apple, 20, who is crushing on Chalamet.
“Gwyneth signed on to co-star with Timothee in Marty Supreme thanks to her daughter, who has had a crush on the Dune star for years,” a source told DailyMail.com exclusively.
Gwyneth stunned in an elegant floor-length red coat and black opera-style gloves
Meanwhile, Timothee sported a gray double-breasted suit with a matching tie and a pair of silver-rimmed reading glasses.
At one point, she was photographed placing a silver necklace around his neck.
“After reading it and loving it, even though she had no great desire to act at the moment, Apple convinced her and she intends to be on set as much as possible.”
Plot details are still under wraps, but the film, produced by A24, will be a “fictional original, rather than a biopic,” according to Deadline, with Chalamet’s character inspired by Reisman, one of the tennis players. most notable American tabletops of all. time.
The native New Yorker, known as ‘The Needle’, won more than 22 major table tennis titles between 1946 and 2002 after learning the sport as a child on the Lower East Side and chasing money during his early years.
He and his doubles partner, Douglas Cartland, later became the opening act for the Harlem Globetrotters, performing a table tennis comedy routine with frying pans.
His autobiography, The Money Player, The Confessions of America’s Greatest Table Tennis Player and Hustler, was published in 1974.
Reisman, who once described his career as “a fun way to spend life,” died in 2012, at the age of 82.
Paltrow, who shares Apple and her 18-year-old son Moses with ex-husband Chris Martin, will star alongside Chalamet in the upcoming film directed by Josh Safdie. His role is not specified.
He recently starred in Netflix’s The Politician and lent his voice to 2022’s She Said and an episode of 2023’s American Horror Stories.
Despite not having a “big desire” to act, Paltrow was supposedly “convinced” to say yes to the offer after her daughter Apple learned that Chalamet not only produces, but also plays the lead role; seen with his daughter
But her last big screen appearance was in Marvel’s 2019 superhero adventure, Avengers: Endgame, in which she reprized her role as Pepper Potts, Iron Man’s love interest.
The actress, who is married to producer Brad Falchuk, scaled back her “incredible acting career” to focus on goop, the wellness brand she launched in 2008 and grew into an estimated $250 million business.
Last year he said he would “consider” potentially returning to the screen.
“Now I’m happy with what I’m doing at Goop, but I never say never,” he said at a panel at the Red Sea International Film Festival.
‘I don’t know what the future holds for me. If I’m not busy running Goop, and if one of my best friends tells me to come and do that with us, I might consider it.’
Chalamet’s character will be based on Marty Reisman, one of the greatest American table tennis players of all time (pictured in New York in 2012).
Paltrow, the daughter of director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, was cast by her godfather Steven Spielberg in 1991’s Hook, four years before her breakthrough role in 1995’s Se7en.
He won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love and became a major part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as enjoying roles in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Se7en, Shallow Hal, Contagion and Sliding Doors, among others.
Chalamet, who is dating lipkit mogul Kylie, is currently enjoying a meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom and a growing collection of Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for films including Call Me By Your Name, Beautiful Boy and Wonka.
The actor, who was catapulted thanks to his role in the sci-fi blockbuster Dune, will play Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown.